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Vegas country show was annual pilgrimage for shooting victim Calla Medig of Canada

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Hannah Ahlers, 34, of Beaumont, Calif., was killed in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire on Oct. 1, 2017, at a country music festival.
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Austin Meyer was one of the people killed in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, at a country music festival. Meyer celebrated his 24 birthday in Las Vegas at the country music festival.
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Dorene Anderson of Anchorage, Alaska, was shot and killed during a country music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017.
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Candice Bowers, one of the people killed in Las Vegas at a country music festival.
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Lisa Patterson was one of the people killed in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire Oct. 1, 2017, at a country music festival.
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Christiana Duarte, 22, of Torrance, Calif., was shot and killed during a country music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017.
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Carrie Barnette, 34, from Riverside, Calif., was killed during a country music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017.
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Kelsey Meadows was one of the people killed in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire at a country music festival.
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In this June 6, 2015 photo, U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Charleston Hartfield of the 100th Quartermaster Company poses for a photo at Rainbow Falls near Hilo, Hawaii. Hartfield was one of the people killed in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire on Oct. 1, 2017, at a country music festival.
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Calla Medig, one of the people killed in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire on Sunday.
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This Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, photo provided by Tom Day Sr., shows his son Tom Day Jr, with Day Jr.'s family, at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. Day Jr., was one of the people killed in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, at the music festival.
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Canadian Calla Medig, 28, of Edmonton, Alberta, was a country music fan who traveled to Las Vegas for the Route 91 Harvest Festival. She was one of 58 people killed in the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting.(Photo: Scott Collingwood/Moxie’s Grill and Bar)

Growing up in the small Canadian town of Jasper, Alberta, Calla Medig loved her country music.

She loved it so much she put a job promotion on hold so she could attend the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert in Las Vegas with her roommate.

Medig, 28, was among the 58 people killed in Sunday's massacre, when a gunman fired on concertgoers from a 32nd-floor room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

"It certainly is senseless and random," said Scott Collingwood, acting general manager at Moxie’s Grill and Bar in the West Edmonton Mall, where Medig worked.

Collingwood said Medig was scheduled to become a manager Oct. 5.

"She was promoted the day before she left for Vegas," Collingwood said. "She was well respected and well loved. When we announced she was to become a manager, people were hooting and hollering."

Collingwood said Medig grew up in Jasper, a town with a population of 4,590 amid the snow-capped Canadian Rockies. It was there, 226 miles southwest of Edmonton, that she acquired her love for country music. It was her third trip to the Vegas festival.

"She was making this an annual thing," Collingwood said. "She loved going to the concert, and she loved her country music, which I razzed her about."

He said she moved to Edmonton a few years ago, and quickly worked her way up at the restaurant after being a server and supervisor the past two years. Outside of work, she liked to make wine.

Collingwood said Medig enjoyed hanging out with her co-workers and was well respected. He said she was compassionate, and never spoke inappropriately of her colleagues.

"She was valuable and had wisdom. She could pick up on personalities, and she could read people really well. That is what made her so good at her job," Collingwood said. "Within three weeks, I knew she was going to be a manager."